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wait... i havent seen that old computer in, like..... moths it was like a PCbell, or something, or i dunno, windows 95 doom, im living somewhere else than where that old comp is stored. and we still owe like $2000 on it. and no, theres only one of the few gurus on this forum.

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Fine, I hereby challenge you to a duel for the title of "Doom Guru".

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Bring it on ragedy man!

What was the Orrigional version of doom sold through?
A. CD
B.Share Ware
C.Floppy disk

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Technically, B and C. The shareware version was originally dsitributed via BBSes and such, which no doubt inspired a large amount of people to buy the game, but it was shipped on floppy disks. Not until about 1995 did CD versions appear.

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Correct,

When did ID software start? as in, what year, the actual date.

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I'm not certain exactly when. In spring of 1990, Carmack, Romero, Wilbur, and Carmack left Softdisk, and shortly thereafter id was born. If you read "Masters of Doom" you'd know that during that time the guys actually rented a house in Lousiana where they worked on some very early stuff.

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correct.
grr....

what was doom orrigionaly supposed to have?

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http://5years.doomworld.com/doombible should answer all of those questions.

As for who I said left Softdisk....I meant to add Tom Hall in there...

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sorry, but i was looking answers coming from you directly. so that ones counted as wrong, answer this question:
In a Certain Level on Doom2: Hell On Earth, John Romero's head was placed into the game, only using a certain cheat code can be used to find it.
Name the level, The Cheat Code, and who John Romero is/was and what significance he had to this game.

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Wow. The easiest one yet. It was in MAP30, Icon of Sin, behind the lava in the goat's head. Use idclip (or use the console and noclip in modern engines) and run back there to see it. Romero was the lead designer of Doom, all of Episode 1, and portions of a lot of the rest of the game. He also did a few levels for Doom 2.

Bonus points: It came about when he was playing that level one night on noclip mode and he accidentally ran back there and found that the graphic used on the target where one's rockets hit to kill the demon had been replaced with his head. The sound designer Bobby Prince was there that night, so they recorded "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero" and then played with and reversed it to make the demon wakeup sound.

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DARN!
allright.... lets see if you can get this......

When was 2600 Doom sold, and how much did it sell for?

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It was an April Fool's joke. IIRC someone else started a port for real but it never got off the ground. Besides, if the SNES could barely handle Doom, who thinks the 2600 could?

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correct, but then again, incorrect. Doom 2600 was a project for a 2d computer image class by James Catalano, which he got an A for. There was never a real game. Catalano then advertised it on the internet and in EGM magazine for a hoax. Alot of people beleved Catalano and one person offered him $150 for the game.

who wrote the music to doom?

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Bobby Prince. I ought to get around to putting some of that on my iPod, MAP07/18/29 was really good, for example.

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it was Robert Prince, but nicknames are accepted.
What happend on Dooms Day?

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So am I the only one who thinks the first-person sequences on the trailer were pretty DARN tacky?

mikes, watch your language, i know you from Hsr forums, but curses arent allowed here, okay? and your Banner is to big, so resize it,now back to the question.........
What happend on dooms day?

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I assume you're referring to Dec. 10, 1993. Several things:

1) id released the original 0.99 shareware Doom to the Internet.
2) Everyone assumed that they meant 12:01 AM, which was technically on their set release date.
3) The FTP (University of Wisconsin IIRC) Jay was going to upload to was full, when he called up the tech there to add another slot so he could get the second part of Doom uploaded. Slots were added and were filled before Jay got a chance. He finally went into their chat room and told them to get off or no Doom. Everyone got off.
4) When he finished uploading, the server crashed under the load of all the simultaneous download attempts as the tech watched in horror.

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Er, sorry. I thought there was a censor in place.

If you want the other Doomsdays (Oct 10, 1994, and July 14/Aug 3, 2004) too let me know.

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Correct. you know what, lets stop all this challenging and everything. i Declair that For Any Doom Related Questions, or anything Involving doom Shal be asked to either Me, H And R COLA Steinman, and Tangy Brautstonwurffen. Aggreed?



no, but you know.. there should be, you should put that in the suggestions forum.

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It seems like a good idea, the only thing bad is that it'd probably have aoaii. (don't ask me what that means)

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I actually just saw a commercial on the telly about it, and it doesn't look too bad. I mean, for a movie based on a game, it could be a lot worse, like the second Laura Croft.

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Whoa. Enough with this little competition, guys. It's spammy, so stop it.

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We finished long ago.....and then determined via AIM that we could both hold the title.

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Grood. I mean great. Great and good.

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okay, so any more news on this? action figures? toys of it? anything worth collecting and or dropping our native Older selfs to revert back into that six year old kid and play with toys? i mena, what?

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okay, this has to do with the game. tangy just reversed the Demonic words said by The icon of Sin in the last level of Doom 2. here is a link to the sound wave. http://niteice.hopto.org/dsbossit_rev2.wav

he is saying "to win the game you must defeat me, John Romero"

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With all this talk of crappy movies based on video games I'm suprised no one has brought up Tron.

Tron was all sorts of different kinds of cool that was rolled together Katamari style.


hmm. I'd watch a Katamari movie now that I think of it.

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werent there videogames based on the movie tron for the Atari 2600 and coleco vision?

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